Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Ph.D. in Global History, is chair of the Department of Central Asia, Caucasus and Volga-Ural Studies in Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences and professor at Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies in National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Bobrovnikov had visiting positions at the Instiut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (Istanbul, Turkey), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris, France), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam, Netherlands). His research interests focus on the legal history and anthropology of non-Christian rural populations under the colonial and socialist rules from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. His major field of expertise is Islam in Russia and Caucasus, as well as the history of Oriental Studies in Europe. He authored and (co-)edited: Custom, Law and Violence Among the North Caucasus Muslims (in Russian, Vostochnaia literatura 2002); Zealots of Islam: The Cult of Saints and Sufism in Central Asia and the Caucasus (in Russian, Vostochnaia literatura 2003); North Caucasus in the Russian Empire (in Russian, NLO 2007); Custom and Law in Written Monuments from Dagestan, 5th – early 20th Centuries (2 Vol., in Russian, Marjani Publishers 2009); Dagestan and the Muslim Orient (in Russian, Marjani Publishers 2010); Voyage au pays des Avars (Daghestan, Russie, début du XXIe siècle) (Cartouche 2011); Posters of the Soviet Orient, 1918–1940. Catalogue (in Russian, Marjani Publishers 2013); Orientalism vs. Orientology (in Russian, Sadra 2016); Syntaslar. Funeral Steles of the Noghay Steppe. Catalogue (in Russian, Marjani Publishers 2016); Muslims in the New Imperial History (in Russian, Sadra 2017); Russia’s Islam: Essays in History and Culture (in Russian, Institute for Oriental Studies 2019). His publications also include articles in English, Russian, French, German, and Arabic, the most recent of which are “Muslims in Imperial Russia”, American Historical Review (2017 122:1); “Islamic Discourse of Visual Propaganda in the Interwar Soviet Orient, 1918–1940”, Islamology (2017 7:2); “Applied Oriental Studies of Russiaʾs Own Islam: From Orthodox Missionaries to Militant Godless and Wahhabis”, Insight Turkey (2018 20:4); “Inventing a New Legal Tradition: The Discourse of ‘Traditional Islam’ in Post-Communist Dagestan,” in: R. Bekkin, ed., The Concept of Traditional Islam in Modern Islamic Discourse in Russia (University of Saraevo Press, 2019); “Fazliddin Muhammadiev’s Journey to the “Other World”: The History of a Cold War Ḥajjnāma,” Die Welt des Islams (2021 62:1); “Customary Law. 4. Northwest Caucasus”, in Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson, eds., Encyclopaedy of Islam, THREE (Brill 2022-1).